I don’t think they’ll go anywhere. Too fragile for most gamers, and too awkward for rush hour commuters. Too expensive for what is really a disposible item.

Finnish start-up Jolla Ltd. made waves earlier this year when it announced its intention to use Nokia’s MeeGo operating system as the basis for a new line of mobile devices. Nokia abandoned the system last year in favor of using Microsoft Corp.’s Windows system, but allowed Jolla and other companies access to the technology.

Jolla’s code name for its new MeeGo-based system is “Sailfish.” Further details about the new phone aren’t being disclosed at this time.

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Who would pay these prices?

http://goo.gl/mR5Jt

Same goes for Windows 8 METROFAIL tablets, $800 on up, for a tablet?? What was Ballmer smoking?

Just last week, Gartner said it would continue to advise its clients to essentially ignore Windows 8 altogether, that shows a rather lack of faith in M$, don’t you agree?

Your silence is an admission.

That has many causes. Vendor lock-in number 1. If the defacto standards is a format you cannot read dependably because the other side is moving the goal posts all the time you are screwed.

FOSS has battled over the past 10 years to attempt to get most of the defacto standard killed and replace something they can compete against.

2) Linux/FOSS without enough force to make hardware vendors support. This is why Linux got stuck with GLX for 3d accelerations. Unix/X11 uses that its good enough for Linux. Android has brought Linux EGL. KDE and wayland already supports it.

3) due to those 2 things Redhat and others decided desktop was too hard and went else were basically from 2002 to 2010. Chris Weig this shows when you look at the Linux Kernel Plumbers Topics over that time frame. 2003 to 2010 the Linux Kernel Plumbers topics are mostly all high end server or embedded. Desktop what is the desktop basically.

Chris Weig its the one thing you have not been watching I have. Resources are now being sent into Linux Desktop work.

This is the thing you are now seeing places like Redhat start investigating again in major desktop work.

The first target is to get the Desktop Secure. Security was not possible without hacks with X11.

Next target X11 optional. Linux world wants GLX killed and EGL in. EGL allows video card to be used without X11 server.

Target after that frame-buffer the Linux first and most crappy graphical system. All frame-buffer only drivers terminated replaced by DRM(direct render manager)drivers. DRM include frame-buffer emulation so no backward compatibility breakage.

Result after this embedded (this includes android) and desktop use exactly same drivers for graphical. Security will go up. That is just the next 12 to 24 months.

That is just some of the activity linked to desktop.

Chris Weig you have the stupid idea that we all have to be programmers with FOSS. Its not the case at all. Someone has to fight the media battles.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/27/lg-display-five-inch-1080p/

“Wintel’s dominance is, if anything, the natural result of FLOSS’s inadequacy.”

Replacing a monopoly with a non-monopoly takes time. But you know that. Or at least you do when you’re not all pumped up with your Microsoft delusions.

Now where was Linux in 1981? Where does your delusion place it Chris?

Again? I thought it ended one year ago. Or was that two years ago? I can’t quite remember, since every day seems to be the day when a monopoly only existing in your imagination is about to end.

Wintel’s dominance is, if anything, the natural result of FLOSS’s inadequacy. Mr. Pogson could, of course, be hard at work fixing FLOSS’s problems. He’s such a great programmer. He should help the cause. Instead he waxes empty rhetoric here. Go figure.

The Cult of FLOSS apparently consists of whiners, predominantly.